Documentary Filmmaker. Albert, along with his brother David, were award-winning documentarians, making several well-regarded documentaries in the 1960s, but it was 'Gimme Shelter' (1970), about the Rolling Stones’ 1969 American tour, that brought them widespread attention. Albert studied psychology at Syracuse University, received a master’s degree from Boston University and taught psychology there for three years before making his first film, 'Psychiatry in Russia' (1955), a silent documentary that he shot on a trip to the Soviet Union. He followed that with 'Youth in Poland' (1957), for which his brother, who had been working as a production assistant on Hollywood movies, was co-director. In 1962, the brothers established Maysles Films, making television commercials for large corporations before they began making documentaries, including 'What’s Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A.' (1964), 'With Love From Truman' and 'Meet Marlon Brando' (both 1966) and 'Salesman' (1968), but it was 'Gimme Shelter' (1970), about the Rolling Stones’ 1969 American tour, which included a scene of a fan being stabbed to death at the group’s concert in Altamont, Calif. that brought the brothers into the mainstream. In 1975, they produced 'Grey Gardens', a double portrait of Edith Bouvier and her daughter, Edith Bouvier Beale, both cousins of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who lived in squalor and with obvious mental confusion in what had once been a grand house in East Hampton, New York. Two Maysles brothers’ films won Emmys, 'Vladimir Horowitz: The Last Romantic' (1985) and 'Soldiers of Music' (1991). Albert Maysles made five films about the work of the installation artist Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude; 'Christo’s Valley Curtain' (1974), which was nominated for a documentary short-subject Oscar, and the last was 'The Gates' (2005). In July 2014, Maysles received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama.